I dont think the party dies immediately, Gilmore says. Its not going to just disappear like the Whigs did, since there is so much law that supports the two-party system. But Republicans will be locked into a permanent minority at the national level unless we seriously rethink our approach.

The Socialist Workers' Party (Democrats), now have control of the majority of the Public (parasitic/welfare tribes, and Union-enslaved workers, plus the Self-Dealing Unions in the Public Sector government workforce). Controlling how OTHERS' tax dollars are taken to fund their propoganda machine (the State-Run-Media), and indoctrinating the Yewts with their self-serving Unionized Teachers, there's no hope on the horizon for out-voting those dependants.

ONLY a war will change the circumstance, OR, when the money-supply-earners can't keep up with the handouts, and the grumbling of the parasitic-classes changes the vote.

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posted on 01/31/2013 11:08:58 AM PST
by traditional1
(Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)

Lol, that boat sailed years ago. You allow over 40 million LEGAl third world immigrants to pour into the USA since the 1965 Immigration Act was passed & this is the logical outcome. Any political party with a survival instinct (like the rancid democratic party) would have shut down this immigrtion flow, but not the GOP. The GOP were afraid of being called names....so they lost the nation over it.

I remember reading these same articles about the democrats back around 2005 when Republican had controlled congress for over ten years and held the presidency as well. These things go in cycles, eventually the democrats will do something to piss enough people off like they did in the early 1990’s and they will be gone as well. I'm not trying to sound overly optimistic but we are in a far better place today than we were in 2009 or the early years of the Clinton administration when Democrats controlled everything by substantial margins.

“... Republicans will be locked into a permanent minority at the national level unless we seriously rethink our approach.

That’s very true, as far as it goes. The Stupid Party “rethinking” it’s approach doesn’t give me a lot of hope. I foresee amnesty, and more middle-aged, white guys trying to act hip. I’m nauseous just thinking about it.

Shrillness and extreme language are driving away the voters who could help us build a majority. Were not speaking to them as reasonable conservatives. Republicans have to decide if they want to govern or play ideological parlor games.

More tone deafness and empty chatter from the republican political class. A "reasonable conservative" is the very definition of a permanent minority.

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posted on 01/31/2013 11:17:39 AM PST
by TADSLOS
( "I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few politicians."-George Mason)

It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. (October 27, 1964) Ronald Reagan

Don’t agree. The left has imported a NEW people & will give some kind of amnesty to 20 million more soon. The old political calculus is OVER. We also lost control of our medical freedom, forever ! We have Obamacare. We no long longer have free market medicine.

the rep party is already a permanent minority party. it can only masquerade as a major party when enough conservatives prop it up.

the RNC guy, said one very important thing to the effect that many existing laws prop up the two major parties. that is true. and that is a big reason why the only option for conservatives in blue states should be to get out of the r-party asap.

that will create the opportunity (nature abhors a vacumm) in one party blue states to start up a new conservative party.

“These things go in cycles, eventually the democrats will do something to piss enough people off like they did in the early 1990s and they will be gone as well.”

I disagree, The democrat machine never quits grinding. It IS the “communist” party and it has goals which it has been achieving in ever perceptible strides. The GOP is a joke and I sorely wish there was a viable alternative to it. It seems that there is no disaster, great enough, to dissuade masses of people from voting for democrats. But then there truly is no loyal opposition.

Gilmore, a former Virginia governor, spoke with National Review Online on Wednesday. He says he and other longtime Republican leaders have been privately fretting about the GOPs future since Mitt Romneys defeat. The world has changed beneath us, Gilmore says. Shrillness and extreme language are driving away the voters who could help us build a majority. Were not speaking to them as reasonable conservatives. Republicans have to decide if they want to govern or play ideological parlor games.

Yeah, I see his point.

The shrill and extreme Mitt Romney, the far-right-wing fanatic, lost us the election, so we need to move away from his reactionary extremism.

Y'see.

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posted on 01/31/2013 11:50:09 AM PST
by Lazamataz
(LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)

By the time most Americans wake up and recognize what time it really is - the trains will be waiting and the ovens will be fired up. We will not have a single chance to stop our own extermination from within, and then - from without.

I dont think the party dies immediately, Gilmore says. Its not going to just disappear like the Whigs did, since there is so much law that supports the two-party system.

Huh? The two party bias (winner take all electoral votes in 48 states, plurality takes the seat in all other elections) is what will kill the Republican party as soon as a serious alternative pops up. There might be one election cycle where a third party is a serious threat. Then the Republican Party will either beat it back or not survive to see another election. The Republican party was founded in 1854, got 33% of the vote and second place two years later and won in 1860.

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posted on 01/31/2013 12:10:51 PM PST
by KarlInOhio
(Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)

Embracing emotional thinkers is going to take some planning and strong efforts to develop the proper "stories".

Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner!!

In actuality it is a coalition of emotional thinkers, takers, and deviants. This is the reality of the modern American system.

So, yes, we need better stories. Maybe with babies or puppies, and backed by pretty Hollywood starlets that seem cool for going against the Hollywood/Higher Education groupthink. That would reach the low information voters.

But to appeal to the takers, you gotta be a bigger ATM machine than the democrats are. The party that promises the most gravy is gonna drive the taker's gravy train. Whos gonna win an election against Santa Claus otherwise???

The deviants are a lost cause, unless the RNC wants to champion an equal rights amendment for them (but if they did, where would it stop? What about the male deviants that want to marry a whole school of male goldfish? Don't they have rights, too?)

Take one of the legs off of the democrats stool, and it will fall. But are we willing to dumb down the message (and spend the time doing the planning and the strong effort necessary), or sell our souls in the process of getting back power?

If people think Reagan style conservatism is gonna make a comeback any time soon, they probably also think Hannity is a conservative, Ann Coulter is gonna back somebody other than Christie, and that the RNC has a clue

The ‘Elite’ want us to compromise ourselves out of existence anyway. If Republicans act like Democrats, why do we need two parties?
Examples throughout mankind’s history are full of what happens when you surrender your right to self determination.

“When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.” -Edith Hamilton

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posted on 01/31/2013 12:32:50 PM PST
by griswold3
(Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)

They are already a permanent minority unless they stop cowering in fear. Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, Bobby Jinhdal????? Come on, give me a break. These men are trying so desperately to seem ‘reasonable’ that they can’t see the forest for the trees. Voters are PISSED OFF! If you can’t get angry too and lead, get out of the way.

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